Welcome home
Bing Jie hurriedly asked the driver to turn around and go to the shopping mall, but when he got there, he naturally couldn't find anyone there. The store was also closed for the day, and he didn't know who to ask.
He was moved and went to Qi Jixin's house again - still empty.
In the end, he could only return to his home, the home he and Qi Jixin shared. He thought, he could just fall asleep and listen to the verdict the next day.
After entering the password and opening the door, he had no intention of turning on the light and was ready to go upstairs directly. But when he turned the corner of the corridor, he saw a ball of warm light in his peripheral vision, and a bean-sized flame was constantly jumping. Bing Jie frowned and before he could see what the flame was, he saw a shadowy figure in the darkness.
Qi Jixin stood up from the sofa and ran over quickly. Although she was facing away from him, Bing Jie could still see her expression clearly a second before the hug: joy, sadness, guilt, and boundless grievance...
His alcohol-numbed brain prevented him from thinking too much, so his hands acted before his brain and he held the person in his arms.
"Happy birthday." Qi Jixin tried to raise her head from Bing Jie's embrace, but Bing Jie held her too tightly, and with his chin pressed against her forehead, it was difficult for her to move. She gave up struggling and continued, "Although this surprise has kept you worried for another month."
Bing Jie tilted his head and placed a kiss on her forehead, his voice trembling slightly: "Well, I like this surprise very much." He also heard Qi Jixin's guilt, so he added: "Don't feel guilty, and don't be sad about this, okay?"
Qi Jixin nodded, then patted his back, wanting him to let go, but Bing Jie didn't let her do what she wanted. He just loosened his grip a little so that the two of them could look into each other's eyes. He asked hesitantly, "Your memory, is it..."
Suddenly, a restraint trapped his legs from the side. Bing Jie froze up, and when he looked down, he saw the culprit.
"Dad, happy birthday!" The little girl smiled with her eyes curved. When she found that Bing Jie had noticed her, she let go of her legs and stretched her hands upwards. Obviously, she was signaling Bing Jie to hug her.
Seeing Bing Jie standing there in a daze, Qi Jixin bent over with laughter, leaned on his chest and teased: "So let me go and hug your daughter properly, okay?"
Bing Jie came to his senses and reluctantly let go of his hand. He bent down and held the child in his arms, letting her sit on his left arm as if he had learned it by himself. The child also cooperated by hugging Bing Jie's neck and kissed him on the face affectionately.
"This is the gift my sister taught me to give you~"
"Sister?" Bing Jie looked at Qi Jixin in front of her, and she finally explained, "I'm used to calling you Jiexin, so it will take me a while to change."
Bing Jie turned his head to look at his child in his arms, murmured her name, his face showing a mixture of emotion and disbelief. Ten minutes ago he wanted to escape from his current situation, but now he suddenly had everything.
The change came too suddenly. Bing Jie was shocked by the sudden happiness and was a little overwhelmed. He moved his other hand that was supporting the child's back and pinched her round cheeks, making the child laugh and snuggle into his neck, giggling.
Qi Jixin turned her head to look at the cake on the table. The candle was already half burned. She wanted to turn around and tell them to blow out the candles and eat the cake first. But when she turned her head to look at Bing Jie again, Bing Jie stepped forward and hugged her in his arms again.
Qi Jixin knew that he must be feeling very emotional at the moment, so she said nothing and just hugged him silently.
This moment was too dreamy. Bing Jie had his resurrected child lying on his left shoulder, and his lost wife's neck was resting on his right. He saw the candle on the table for two seconds, and then his vision was blurred by tears. He kissed Qi Jixin on the head again.
"Can you blow out the candles? Jie Xin has been wanting to eat cake for a long time."
Qi Jixin looked up and saw his tears. Before the child looked up while leaning on her shoulder, she raised her hand to wipe away his tears, then stood on tiptoe and kissed him, and then pulled him to the dining table.
When I met the person I wanted to see the most and heard the thing I was most interested in, the child in my arms sat up in a second, started nodding his head frantically, and laughed and cheered, finally getting to eat the cake!
Bing Jie was caught off guard by her struggle and almost lost his grip on the child. He quickly put his arms around the child's back and immediately looked at Qi Jixin guiltily. Fortunately, she was walking towards the dining table and did not notice anything unusual.
Turning around, she discovered that the child was also covering his mouth with his hands. He looked at Qi Jixin and then at Bing Jie, looking terrified like a little adult. This made Bing Jie laugh. He whispered to her, "Don't tell Mommy, okay?"
"Well, I won't tell my sister...my mother."
Bing Jie walked towards Qi Jixin while holding the child in his arms, thinking about correcting the child's way of calling him as soon as possible. Yes, this matter had to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
Although it was still cake and everyone had to blow out candles and make a wish, Bing Jie's mood was completely different from that at noon. While the two people he loved most were singing the birthday song, he put his hands together, closed his eyes, and made a wish for the first time.
At noon, he made a wish, hoping that Qi Jixin would come back to him. He admitted that he couldn't honestly accept Qi Jixin leaving him, but he had no other means to keep her. That wish was his last effort...
His only wish tonight was for the happiness and safety of the one he loved most.
Before closing his eyes, he glanced at Qi Jixin across from him, and the child in his arms. When he opened his eyes after making a wish, he felt a little impatient, even a little flustered. Seeing the two people sitting upright, both looking at him with smiles on their faces, Bing Jie finally felt relieved.
This is not a dream, Qi Jixin is really back.
After eating the cake, the family of three returned to their room. According to Bing Jie's wishes, he actually wanted his aunt to take the child away. After all, he had a lot of things to ask Qijixi and a lot to say to her.
But the child was so attached to him as a father that he felt mixed emotions. He was touched and felt soft inside, but also felt a little helpless... Qi Jixin whispered to him that he should just coax the child to sleep and then let the aunt take the child away.
For Bing Jie, a new father, coaxing the child to sleep was really a hassle. After much effort, he coaxed her to sleep. Only then did Qi Jixin help him hand the child to Aunt Chen Jie.
"Then you two should go to bed early..." Bing Jie said to Chen Jie, but Qi Jixin raised her hand to interrupt him, "No, no, no, Aunt Chen, you just stay with Jiexin for a while. Let's talk for a while, and I'll let him come and sleep with the child."
Bing Jie looked at her in surprise. Qi Jixin pulled him upstairs and explained, "She sleeps with you as her father before going to bed. If you're gone when she wakes up, she'll cry. Besides, it's time for you to get closer to her."
Seeing her enter the room first, Bing Jie hugged her from behind and said in a somewhat aggrieved tone: "Why didn't you listen to me and ask me to get closer?"
Qi Jixin shook her head in amusement. She knew this would happen, so she slowly walked to the bedside, sat down opposite him, and took his hand before saying, "Be close. Sleep with me first. When I fall asleep, you can go find your daughter."
The two of them just laughed it off as a joke. Bing Jie leaned against the head of the bed and pulled her into his arms. Then they talked about what happened in the past and what is happening now. Qi Jixin explained all the questions he was curious about to him one by one.
"My parents pretended to be so nice back then, why did they come clean with you later?" Bing Jie couldn't tell the whole story after all what the bodyguard standing at the door said, so he could only ask Qi Jixin, the person involved.
"They've been supporting Hua Shaoshi behind the scenes to cause trouble for me. At first, I thought it was Hua Shaoshi's doing. After all, she always told me to send you to work and live in the same place, and even dressed up to accompany you to various banquets. Anyone who sees this would be jealous, right?"
Seeing Bing Jie wanted to explain something, Qi Jixin looked up at him and shook her head, then said, "I'm not stupid. I was just emotionally unstable during the late pregnancy, and I had a lot of free time during the hospitalization. After sorting out everything, I understood. It was all your parents who were behind this."
At that time, Bing Jie's parents participated in the decision-making of the company's major cooperation projects. It can be said that where Bing Jie would go on business trips and where he would go to discuss cooperation were the only ones who could control this.
"After figuring this out, I called them over. They no longer used Hua Shaoshi as a cover to scare me, but instead told me to leave you—"
"Is this the only way they will keep the child?" Bing Jie asked. Qi Jixin shook his head, thinking that he still didn't know how cruel his parents were.
"They never intended to keep the child from the beginning. They were just giving me an ultimatum."
Bing Jie's heart tightened. His parents were really pushing the limits of his understanding again and again. Seeing his heavy breathing and cold eyes, Qi Jixin quickly patted his chest soothingly, and then continued:
"Don't worry, didn't I talk to them later? In fact, I used the emperor to control the princes, and used your future situation after knowing the truth to persuade them to keep the child. Of course, there was also a clause: I wanted to leave you." She grasped the collar of Bing Jie's pajamas, made up her mind, and then revealed everything. "In fact, it's not about leaving you, but leaving this world."
She couldn't bear to see Bing Jie panicking, so she quickly said in a relaxed tone, "That was just me pretending to compromise. It was just a small accident during the drowning accident. I lost my memory, so it took me four years to come back."
Avoiding the important and focusing on the trivial is what Qi Jixin is best at. Bing Jie knew that the "little accident" she glossed over was actually the accident that almost took her life. Thinking of this, he was extremely scared.
"It's okay, that kind of thing will never happen again." He patted Qi Jixin's back gently to express his comfort.
The two of them went from leaning against the headboard to lying on the bed. Bing Jie noticed that the topic was becoming more and more serious, and he didn't want to talk about such a sad topic late at night. They had plenty of time in the future, so there was no need to dwell on tonight.
He didn't ask any more questions. The two of them listened to each other's breathing and slowly fell asleep, just as intimately as they had done a few years ago.
When she opened her eyes the next day, Qi Jixin found herself in Bing Jie's arms. He was looking at her with interest. She sighed in annoyance and said that she had forgotten to let him go downstairs to accompany the child before going to bed yesterday. As she said that, she hurriedly pushed him downstairs to see the child.
Bing Jie chuckled amusedly, raised his hand to tidy up the long hair around her face, and finally put his hand on her shoulder and squeezed it gently.
"Don't worry, I went to accompany her after you fell asleep yesterday. Now she's awake a long time ago and is being taken around downstairs by her aunt. Why can't I come back and take a nap with you after a tiring night?"
Qi Jixin nodded with satisfaction, stretched out her hand from under the quilt and placed it in front of Bing Jie. Bing Jie held her hand with some doubts and rubbed it gently.
"Are your hands numb?"
She just shook her head, and Bing Jie suddenly realized it after two seconds. He turned around and took the ring box that had been placed on the bedside table. He put the extremely dazzling ring on her finger, and then kissed the back of her hand before saying, "Wife, welcome home."
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